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Original Technorati articles tagged “nanny state”

• in Autos
  The Sin of Driving and Cheeseburgers
  What constitutes a distraction anyway?
  by jwalk6 / on Jan 7, 2012
• in Politics
  Just How Dangerous is a Name?
  Can names hurt? Should they be censored?
  by docentman / on Nov 17, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nanny state”

 

• Treacher: “Question: What’s the Sound of David Axelrod’s Weekend Getting Ruined? ‘CHOOM‘ “

  
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  In fact, the best explanation emerges in the comments : It appears Obama was into parasitism way back in high school, proudly mooching other people’s reefer like he was entitled to it. Remember folks, “Choom” is just “mooch” spelled backwards. Astute commentor truebearing NAILS it and “ President ...
  23 hours ago

• Tax avoidance for all and how to halve the price of beer

  
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  Tax avoidance is generally regarded as only for the rich or those people wealthy enough not to need to spend everything they currently earn. But there is one ancient form of tax avoidance which is available to everyone – or at least anyone with a little patience, some room about the house and an understanding [...]
  2 days ago

• The Nanny State does not suit sick people

  
  Love versus Goliath — Authority: 108
  I understand bad people do bad things with pseudoephedrine, really, I do.  I can barely spell it, let alone do anything other than swallow it. But today’s experience with the powers of the “nanny state” we live in just blew my mind. Last week I had three days off work with a virus.  I do [...]
  2 days ago

• The great Australian nanny state: Employment refused if you were a bully at school

  
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  Everything these morons do in politics makes things worse. Not only would this put an extra strain on taxpayers for welfare and keep people unemployed for no good reason, but many kids bully and realize as they grow older it is silly. This is a nanny state out of control. Everyone gets picked on, you [...]
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• Nearly One-Third Of Mortgaged Homes Underwater

  
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  Nearly One-Third Of Mortgaged Homes Underwater – Housing Wire The negative equity problem for U.S. homeowners might be worse than previously thought, at least according to a new measure from Zillow. The online real estate data provider, in its first negative equity report, said 15.7 million, or 31.4%, of homeowners ...
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• Half Of Democrat-Run Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks

  
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  Half Of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks – Bloomberg Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights. As it is, 40 percent of the 88,000 streetlights are broken and the ...
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• Senate Vote Today on FDA, Supplements, and Energy Drinks

  
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  Today, the Senate will vote to reauthorize and modify the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) prescription drug and medical device user-fee program ( S. 3187 ). During debate on the measure, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced plans to introduce an amendment to give the FDA more power over supplements such as ...
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• Senator Reid Blocks Ban On $4 Billion Illegal Immigrant Tax Credit Loophole

  
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  Senator Reid Blocks Ban On $4 Billion Illegal Immigrant Tax Credit Loophole – Big Government A bill that would close an IRS tax credit loophole that allows the IRS to funnel over $4 billion to illegal immigrants is being held up by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). …….. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of [...]
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• WHAT SAY YOU?

  
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  Man gets diagnosed with cancer. Freezes sperm. Dies. Wife uses sperm 9 months later to give birth to twins 18 months on. She wants Social Secuirty benefits. Supreme Court tells her to fuck off. I agree. Money grubbing scumbag! A widow has been told by the Supreme Court that she cannotclaim Social Security ...
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• Can These People Ever Just Shut Up?

  
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  I guess “spiking the football” is contagious In a rare glimpse into cyberwarfare tactics, a top U.S. official has explicitly acknowledged that the U.S. government hacked into websites run by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen, changing advertisements that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that ...
  3 days ago

• Beck: As Crackdowns on Lemonade Stands Mount, Kids Will Learn to Acquiesce to Government

  
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  Last week Glenn Beck discussed the all-encompassing reach of the Nanny State as local officials have been cracking down, not on gang violence or organized crime rings, but on enterprises as innocent as children’s lemonade stands and bake-sales. Whether America’s youth are selling their refreshments for charity, ...
  3 days ago

• The ammo test is done,

  
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  Ive got some pictures to edit and then write it up, so probably tomorrow for that. In the meantime It turns out that Horan is right to worry . In fact, Apple’s iPhone Software License Agreement spells this out: “When you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to ...
  3 days ago

• Do as We Say, Not as We Say

  
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  Good catch by TheNewspaper.com: At the same time that the US Department of Transportation is pushing laws to ban in-car cell phone use, it is promoting the “511″ government program that encourages drivers to dial 511 for information on traffic conditions instead of tuning in to a traffic reports on AM radio. ...
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• EEOC Restricts Speech in Viewpoint-Discriminatory Manner in Dawson v. Donahoe: De Facto Ban on Confederate Flags

  
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  The First Amendment generally protects even offensive speech, so if you wish to wear a t-shirt celebrating a bloodthirsty thug like Mao, Stalin, or Che Guevara, you can do so without being punished by the government. But you can’t wear a Confederate flag t-shirt to work , without risking an investigation by the ...
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• Jim Vance on overprotected childhood

  
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  When it comes to the dangers of the demand for a zero-risk childhood, veteran Washington, D.C. broadcast personality Jim Vance seems to be on much the same page (auto-plays video) as Lenore Skenazy of Free-Range Kids . Tweet Tags: nanny state , recreation , Washington D.C. Jim Vance on ...
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• Nanny-State Gone Wild: Seniors Suspended for Biking to School

  
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  In what can only be subscribed as the lamest senior prank ever, Kenowa Hills, MI high school seniors organized a ride-your-bike to school day.  The ride was supported by the towns mayor and police.  But that didnt stop the schools nanny-stater-in-chief from suspending the seniors and not allowing them to walk with ...
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• King-Sized No More: Michelle Obama shrinks your Snickers

  
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  In 1998 a Colorado handyman got swept up in an avalanche that buried his snowmobile and left him stranded in a blizzard. For five days and four nights, rescue teams struggled to locate him. Luckily, the Snickers bar he had in his pocket was a king-sized version. Every one of its 510 calories helped him survive his ...
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• Obama’s Grand Miscalculation With Catholics

  
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  Obama’s Grand Miscalculation With Catholics – Fox News The news Monday that 43 different Catholic entities across the country are suing the Obama administration, in response to the Health and Human Services’ (HHS) rule mandating employer health care coverage of contraception, abortion-inducing drugs, and ...
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• SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST SPEAKS TRUTH; UNDER FIRE BY SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER

  
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  It amazes me how many black groups circle their wagons to enable criminal, stupid, criminal, abhorrent and idiotic behavior by their own. Sadder still when they go after those who speak the truth. Is it any wonder they voted for Obama? In the wake of the Southern Poverty Law Center filing numerous complaints ...
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• If The Supreme Court Overturns Obamacare: A Tale Of Horror

  
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  I have to warn you:  the tale I’m about to tell may shock you.  It’s a tale of the state of American healthcare, and of the horrible, greedy, underhanded health care companies and their awful, uncaring policies that are destroying our medical system. My wife and I have health insurance.  It’s not the good, ...
  4 days ago

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